Creative block of molecular evolution: Adaptive mutations repeat themselves in tiny crustaceans of Lake Baikal

Monday, August 10, 2020 - 06:20 in Biology & Nature

A group of scientists from Skoltech and the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS (IITP RAS) showed, using Lake Baikal amphipods as an example, that parallel evolution driven by adaptations can be detected at the whole-genome level. The research was published in the Genome Biology and Evolution journal.

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